Mexico City: Mexico has named Kenneth Smith (pictured) as its chief negotiator for high-stakes talks set to begin next month aimed at revamping the 23 year old NAFTA free trade pact linking Mexico, Canada and the United States.
Smith is a veteran Mexican trade policy expert and currently serves as director of the Trade and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Office at the Mexican embassy in Washington.
“He’s been working with us since 1993, he’s had a long career working on trade, having passed through the Economy Ministry and the Agriculture Ministry,” Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said.
The first round of trade talks on NAFTA, an agreement that has helped quadruple trade between the three countries to over $1 trillion in 2015, will begin on August 16 in Washington
